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A Cultural History Of Pie
As ever, the battle between sweet and savory pies rages on.
If you strip pie down to its bare basics — the Platonic Pie, if you will — the concept is extraordinarily simple. It's a crust of some sort filled with literally whatever you want. It should come as no surprise, then, that the history of pie stretches back thousands of years. This pastry's flexibility has allowed it to adapt to different times, different cultures and, above all, different tastes.
Modern pie means different things to different people. It's a symbol of Americana, it's a staple of the holidays, it's a savory pub meal and it's a thing to throw in a clown's face. Exploring the pastry's past bounces you around the world and shows the enduring power of dough-wrapped food.
The World's First Pie
Deciding where the history of pie starts will test your understanding of what a "pie" is. Many historians trace it all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, who had a kind of pastry made from grains like wheat or oats, but this is more like a galette — a pan-less, looser-form pastry — which arguably isn't very pie-like. These early "pies," especially those eaten by Egyptian sailors for nourishment on their journeys, are more like an early version of biscuits or hardtack.
The award for earliest pie, then, might just go to the Sumerians, because a tablet with the recipe for a chicken pie was discovered on a tablet dating back to around 2000 BCE. Nothing else is really known about this pie, though, and it still didn't resemble the modern pastry we know.
Then there's the Greeks, who some historians also credit with "inventing" pie. The Greeks took Egyptian recipes and enhanced them with pastry, making the whole thing less bread-like and more pie-like. There's not a huge amount of writing about Greek pies, but in the fifth century BCE plays of Aristophanes, there are allusions to pastries filled with fruit.
The Romans have a greater written record, so more is known of their baking exploits. Their writings also reveal the early division between sweet and savory pies, which is a split that has carried through to modern pastry-making.
On the savory end, the first meat-based pies were not intended to be eaten as pies at all. Romans would use dough as a way to encase meat and to keep it from drying. It wouldn't be until pies traveled outside the Roman Empire that meat pies took over the world of stuffed pastry.
The Romans did eat sweet pies whole, and these were probably more similar to modern pies than anything mentioned so far. The earliest Roman recipe for this foodstuff, published in roughly 160 BCE, involved a rye crust, goat cheese and honey. It's not a pie you're likely to encounter in a modern bakery, but all the components were there for the subsequent rise of this food.
The Spread Of Pies
Because of their subsequent conquest of most of the European continent, Romans have had an outsized impact on the West. Much like the Latin language spread across the landmass, so too did the pies. Because of the pie's mutable form, any country could make a pie by putting its local foods — meat, nuts, fruit of whatever variety — into a crust.
The biggest change that occurred at this point in the history of pie had to do with the crust. One of the distinguishing features of pie crust is that, unlike bread, it needs to be made with some kind of fat. In Rome and other parts of southern Europe, the fat of choice was olive oil, which limits how easily the crust can be shaped. In northern Europe, the cold climates kept olives from being grown, and so other fats were used, like lard or butter. This brought us one step closer to the modern pie, which also usually use one of those ingredients to form the crust.
The Best Pies In London
While pies did spread all across Europe, England likely had the biggest influence on the history of pie. It's also where the pastry finally got the name "pie" (or "pye") sometime before the 14th century, though no one is quite sure where the word came from. The best guess is that it's connected to the magpie, which is a bird known for collecting objects to line its nest. The idea was that just as the bird collects things, a baker collects things to put into a pie.
English and pies are especially intertwined because not every language has a separate word for "pie." Most languages tend to call pies words that look more like "tart" (like the Dutch taart and the Portuguese torta) or "pastry" (like the Spanish pastel or the German Pastete). That doesn't mean there aren't pies in other places but does imply that it was a more defined category in England than in other places.
By the 12th century CE, pies were a commonplace dish in England, but they were still often seen as a way to keep meat fresh for longer periods of time. And it stayed that way for a while. By the middle of the 16th century, a pie crust would be called a coffyn, which — despite sounding funerary — means "basket." And these baskets could be so thick that the pies were more crust than filling.
While the written record supports the idea that pie crusts were not meant to be eaten at this point in history, Janet Clarkson — author of Pie: A Global History — argues that it may have been a matter of class. While the English nobility may have been okay with throwing the dough that encased their preserved meats into the garbage, the lower classes wouldn't have tossed out something edible so flippantly. Medieval serfs weren't exactly rolling in food, after all. The consumption of the crusts may have gone from the lower classes on up, then. And by the time it reached the upper classes, chefs had figured out how to create delectable pies from the inside out.
By the 16th century, pies made a slight turn from the savory to the sweet. Though custard pies had existed for a while, fruit pies took a while to catch on. The first cherry pie ever made was notably served to Queen Elizabeth I, though no one knows how she reacted to it. In any case, it was a golden age for pie experimentation.
And the chefs didn't let their ingeniousness end with just flavor; many went for presentation. You may have heard a popular old nursery rhyme called "Sing a Song of Sixpence," which includes the lines "Four and twenty blackbirds, / Baked in a pie." While this might sound like a pie filled with bird meat, it is in fact a reference to a practice of putting live birds into a pie that would fly up and out when the pastry was uncovered (in this case, the pie would be massive). And it didn't stop at birds: chefs would use anything and anyone to provide entertainment to the upper classes. In the 17th century, a young boy with dwarfism (who would grow up to be a popular entertainer) was placed in a pie to surprise English King Charles I and his wife. And who wouldn't be surprised by a small human bursting out of their food?
When the English created their new colonies in the Americas, they brought pie with them. These early pastries would have been very similar to the pies back in England, but it didn't take long for them to start creating new recipes from the locally available crops.
At several points in the history of pie, chefs would make a sweet version of the pastry. But it was in the United States that the food made a final evolution from main course to dessert, and it was all thanks to one obvious ingredient: processed sugar. While we might take sugar for granted now, it wasn't widely accessible in the United States until the early 19th century. This was when the sugar industry exploded in the southern part of the country, along with the heinous slave trade that made it possible. As soon as regular people could afford to buy sugar for their families, they were adding it to all sorts of desserts to augment the sweetness.
Throughout the 19th century, the gap between English and American pies grew. Today, "pie" is synonymous with "sweet pie" in the United States and with "meat pie" in England. You can get meat pies in the United States and sweet pies in England, but you have to be careful to specify that.
The most American of pies is inarguably the apple pie. But historically, that's not really true. For one thing, apples are not native to the Americas. They're from Asia and were brought over to the "New World" by European immigrants hundreds of years ago. Americans did eat apple since pretty much the founding of the country, though. First, colonists would cook them using dried apples carried across the Pacific Ocean, and later eating the many varieties of apples spread across the country (think Johnny Appleseed).
In the early 20th century, though, apple pies started slowly becoming equated with Americanness. Soldiers in World War II would say they were fighting for "mom and apple pie," conjuring images of an idyllic countryside. The image stuck, and apple pie still calls to mind a specific image of the 1950s nuclear family.
Reducing the United States to a single pie is too simplistic. There are recipes from across the country that reflect the diversity of the people. There's pumpkin pie, made possible by the pumpkins that were native to North America. There's shoofly pie, a molasses-based dessert created by the Pennsylvania Dutch in the late 19th century. There's pecan pie, made from a nut native to the southern United States, which has become a holiday staple across the country. A pie crust can hold whatever you want it to, making it the perfect vessel for reflecting a culture's tastes.
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Thomas Moore Devlin
Thomas grew up in suburban Massachusetts, and moved to New York City for college. He studied English literature and linguistics at New York University, but spent most of his time in college working for the student paper. Because of this, he has really hard opinions about AP Style. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and getting angry about things on Twitter. He's spent a lot of time trying to learn Spanish, and has learned a little German.
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UK and international partners condemn Wagner Group's plan to deploy mercenaries in Mali
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Download logoStatement by the UK and international partners: "We, the international partners committed to supporting Mali and its people in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace and stability and combat terrorism, firmly condemn the deployment of mercenary troops on Malian territory. This deployment can only further deteriorate the security situation in West Africa, lead to…
Statement by the UK and international partners:
"We, the international partners committed to supporting Mali and its people in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace and stability and combat terrorism, firmly condemn the deployment of mercenary troops on Malian territory. This deployment can only further deteriorate the security situation in West Africa, lead to an aggravation of the Human Rights situation in Mali, threaten the Agreement for peace and reconciliation in Mali resulting from the Algiers process, and hamper the efforts of the international community to ensure the protection of civilians and to provide support to the Malian armed forces.
"We deeply regret the choice of the Malian transitional authorities to use already scarce public funds to pay foreign mercenaries instead of supporting the Malian Armed Forces and public services to the benefit of the Malian people.
"We are aware of the involvement of the Russian Federation government in providing material support to the deployment of the Wagner group in Mali and call on Russia to revert to a responsible and constructive behaviour in the region.
"We recall ECOWAS decisions and their concern about the risk of instability for the region should private security companies deploy in Mali, (sixtieth ordinary session in Abuja, 12 December 2021). We also recall the adoption by the European Union of a set of restrictive measures against the Wagner group itself, and against 8 associated individuals and 3 entities connected to it (Foreign Affairs Council on 13 December 2021) involved in serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings, or in destabilizing activities in some of the countries they operate in.
"We will not give up our efforts to address the needs of the Malian population. In line with the objectives of the international Coalition for the Sahel, we reaffirm our commitment to continuing efforts to protect civilians, to support the fight against terrorism in the Sahel and help build long-term stability by supporting sustainable development, respect for human rights and the deployment of public services. We will continue to closely follow and assess the situation.
"We urge the Malian transitional authorities to undertake reforms and to restore constitutional order, through the timely preparation and organization of elections, as they have committed to before the Malian people, ECOWAS and the international community. We fully support recent decisions by ECOWAS in that regard."
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The 43rd Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives' Committee (PRC) kicks off today
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My 10 Favorite Movies from the 1950s
I'll admit, I stole this idea from Ben Domenech almost two years ago. His post has been bookmarked since that time. But not to worry, we appear to have a different taste in movies.
I start with the 1950s because that's the era of my birth. Do not judge me. It was the late 1950s.
But here, in no particular order, are my top 10 favorite movies made in the 1950s.
Remember, these are my favorites, not necessarily a critic's pick of the best. Your popcorn consumption may vary.
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Originally only a moderate success this film is now a Hollywood legend and is Number One on AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list.
The King and I (1956)
Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr
I don't know if this is really a favorite or if I listed it because I saw Yul Brynner do this in the 1977 Broadway revival.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
The film version of the Tennesse Williams play tones down some of the dialogue and inferences in the play. Tennesse Williams and film star Paul Newman stated their disappointment with the film adaptation. But the Hays Code limited the homosexual themes and the relationship between Brick and Skipper. Nominated for several awards, it may have been too controversial to win. You have to love the trivia that Dame Judith Anderson was both "Big Momma" Pollitt and the Vulcan High Priestess in The Search for Spock (1984), her final feature length film.
William Holden, Jack Hawkins and a young Obi-wan Kenobi, Alec Guinness
Based on the 1952 French novel by Pierre Boulle, this film won seven academy awards including Best Picture.
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
The relationship between a proper, strait-laced missionary and a riverboat captain who loves his gin is the real story of this movie. But we get the bonus of blowing up a German gunboat. That's always a win. Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hepburn was nominated but the award that year went to Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire.
The Ten Commandments (1956)
A Biblical epic and unlike The Bible series, it's not boring. This Hollywood epic was narrated by director Cecil B. DeMille and was the last film he directed. DeMille suffered a heart attack during the filming but, against doctor's orders, went on to finish the film. The movie started Charlton Heston as Moses, but also featured Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson and Yvonne De Carlo. It remains one of the most financially successful films ever made. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, losing best picture to Around the World in Eighty Days.
Show Boat (1951)
Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
Call me politically incorrect, but I'm always partial to movies about the South. Thsi screen adaptation of the original 1927 stage musical is one of MGM's most popular musicals.
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
This romantic comedy is one of Hollywood's classics from the 1950s. Many consider this to be one of the greatest films ever made. The Library of Congress has selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Honestly, this may be one of my all time sentimental favorites. As a kid and teenager, I remember staying up to watch this on the late movie. It's set in the world of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Also directed by Cecil B. DeMille it begins with his opening remarks, "We bring you the circus — that Pied Piper whose magic tunes lead children of all ages, from 6 to 60, into a tinseled and spun-candied world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter; whirling thrills; of rhythm, excitement and grace; of daring, enflaring and dance; of high-stepping horses and high-flying stars." The film stars Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde and Betty Hutton. It also features Dorothy Lamour, Jimmy Stewart and Emmett Kelly, playing himself. In addition to the actors, the film features the real Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus 1951 troupe. The film won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards beating out High Noon and Singin' in the Rain. It has been considered one of the worst movies to ever have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Steven Spielberg says that this was the first film he ever saw. He credits the movie as inspiratio for his career in film.
Mister Roberts (1955)
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon
Mister Roberts was based on the 1946 novel and 1948 play. Jack Lemmon won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. A 1964 sequel Ensign Pulver starred Robert Walker, Jr. Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman and Jack Nicholson.
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The Papua New Guinea Hunters have missed out on a playoff berth in the Queensland Cup rugby league competition, after results went against them in the final round of the regular season.
The Hunters collected two points from the bye to finish with 33 points from 26 matches.
But nearest rivals Ipswich Jets and Tweed Heads both managed tight victories to hold onto the final two positions in the top five.
Hunters CEO Brad Tassell says their debut season has been a big learning curve for all involved.
"From the management right through to the coaches [and] through to the players. For the first year a lot of people exposed to that level of football, and for those of us who have been at that level it's been an experience as well for us. I think the team stuck together, and the coaches and the management have stuck together, and there's a very close bond within the club and I think it's going to hold us in good stead for next year".


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The Idea of The Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History
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When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity.
Author: Cemil Aydin
Binding: Hardback, 304, Pages
The Idea of The Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History quantity
Categories: Islam, Religion & Spirituality, Politics
How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread? The Idea of the Muslim World searches for the intellectual origins of a mistaken notion and explains its enduring allure for non-Muslims and Muslims alike.
Conceived as the antithesis of Western Christian civilization, the idea of the Muslim world emerged in the late nineteenth century, when European empires ruled the majority of Muslims. It was inflected from the start by theories of white supremacy, but Muslims had a hand in shaping the idea as well. Aydin reveals the role of Muslim intellectuals in envisioning and essentializing an idealized pan-Islamic society that refuted claims of Muslims' racial and civilizational inferiority.
After playing a key role in the politics of the Ottoman Caliphate, the idea of the Muslim world survived decolonization and the Cold War, and took on new force in the late twentieth century. Standing at the center of both Islamophobic and pan-Islamic ideologies, the idea of the Muslim world continues to hold the global imagination in a grip that will need to be loosened in order to begin a more fruitful discussion about politics in Muslim societies today.
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Here some beachy inspiration for all of you who are jet setting around the world for a beautiful destination wedding!
I hope you love shoes as much as we do! Here is our destination wedding edition of Tuesday Shoe Day for you! Don't you just love all these shoes?! And not to mention how amazing all these destination locations look! Take me there, please!
Today we are featuring this fun, summer engagement shoot at Long Island's Malibu Shore Club at Lido Beach. EXO Photography did an amazing job capturing the true love between Lauren and Kenny, what a cute couple!
Don't miss out on this amazing bridesmaids trunk show by Amsale going on from July 18th-28th! Get all your bridesmaid together and spend the day trying on dresses and picking the perfect dress for the girls who will be standing by your side!
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Here's another amazing shoe day for you featuring Christian Louboutin! Aren't these shoes breathtaking? The sparkle and beautiful details are to die for, and who doesn't love those red soles! Will you wear Christian Louboutin on your wedding day?!
Today I am featuring an amazingly fabulous Indian wedding at the Glen Island Harbor Club.
I love this colorful wedding with all the lavish details and lovely colors! Thanks to Mili Ghosh Photography for capturing to couple's big day and celebration.
Take a look at these beautiful gowns from 2014 Legends by Romona Keveza Collection. Aren't they gorgeous?! Will you wear Romona Keveza on your wedding day?
Today I wanted to share the latest trends in styling your bridesmaids. There are many choices now and you can choose what best fits your style and taste.
1. You can choose to go the traditional, fail safe way and choose just lovely matching dresses in every way. Meaning the same color, style and length. Always works.
2. You can go for a slightly more modern approach and have the bridesmaids have the same color, same length dress but have their tops be a different style. Meaning let your girls pick what suits them on top. Strapless, short sleeves or a one shoulder will all go so well together and lets your girls feel comfortable too. They will love you even more for that.
3. Now if you want your ladies to go and pick there own dress all together or you are just feeling extra avant-garde that day but still want them to look like your bridesmaids, have them in different styles but the same color. This looks so beautiful!


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Our hearts went out to the Federal employees furloughed from their jobs during the government shutdown. Particularly to those required to perform their duties knowing that they wouldn't receive a paycheck until the shutdown ended. Without question, no one should be subjected to these circumstances.
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CES 2015: Hands-on video with the Huawei Ascend Mate 7
On the first official day of CES 2015, our editor Holly filmed a hands-on with Huawei's latest huge handset, the Ascend Mate 7.
Although it's not a new phone for CES, it's a great one to check out in the flesh. The phablet-sized aluminium handset is 6 inches with a full HD screen paired with a tiny bezel, which means you get a LOT of screen for your money. It's also worth noting that it's only 7.9mm thick, so even though it's big, it's easy to hold. The phone's display boasts a 1,920 X 1080 pixel resolution, which isn't as great as Samsung's latest offering, but will do for most people.
There's a fingerprint sensor on the rear, which awakens and unlocks your phone with a single tap, as well as a 13 MP camera and 32 GB of in-built storage to keep your photos safe.
Check out the video above for a hands-on from CES, in which Holly also shows off some of the handset's editing features, including nose thinning and ramping your teeth whiteness up to radioactive levels!
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 hasn't been officially released in the UK yet. But we've contacted Huawei directly to bring you UK availability and price information as soon as we can get hold of it!
This week we're bringing you all the latest news, videos and gossip from CES 2015 in Las Vegas. Check out the CES 2015 page to keep up to date and subscribe to our YouTube channel to see hands-on news with our editor Holly Brockwell from the show floor.
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Q: Converting a SQLServer to Linq Query I would like to know what is the correct way to convert this query to LINQ.
SELECT  DISTINCT ( CONVERT(date,FechaCreacion)) FROM Tabla
where ID = 4
order by CONVERT(date,FechaCreacion) desc
OFFSET     (0 * 20) ROWS
FETCH NEXT 20 ROWS ONLY;

With this query it brings me this data:
 1. 2021-03-16
 2. 2021-03-15
 3. 2021-03-14
 4. 2021-03-13
 5. 2021-03-11
 6. 2021-03-09
 7. 2021-03-02
 8. 2021-02-28
 9. 2021-02-25
 10. 2021-02-24
 11. 2021-02-23
 12. 2021-02-22
 13. 2021-02-21
 14. 2021-02-19
 15. 2021-02-10
 16. 2020-11-30
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LINQ:
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                                 where sp.ID== 4
                                 orderby DbFunctions.TruncateTime(sp.FechaCreacion) descending
                                 select new
                                 {
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                                 ).Skip(0* 20).Take(20).ToList().Distinct();

With LINQ it brings me less data than the query made directly in SQL Server
 1. 2021-03-16
 2. 2021-03-15
 3. 2021-03-14
 4. 2021-03-13
 5. 2021-03-11
 6. 2021-03-09
 7. 2021-03-02
 8. 2021-02-28
 9. 2021-02-25
 10. 2021-02-24
 11. 2021-02-23

A: You have applied Distinct to already paginated result. That's why result is different.
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    where sp.ID == 4
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    select new
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    };

var query = query
    .Distinct()
    .Skip(0 * 20)
    .Take(20)
    .ToList();

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"The supervisory boards of VW and Audi agreed a deal with Rupert Stadler to end his offices and his contracts," the company said in a statement.
The allegations are part of the wider "dieselgate" scandal involving 11-million vehicles worldwide from VW and subsidiaries such as Audi, Porsche and Skoda that has gripped VW since 2015.
VW has yet to name an official successor to Stadler at the head of its high-end brand, after naming Dutch executive Bram Schot as interim boss following the arrest. "Mr Schot continues to act as interim CEO," a VW spokesperson told AFP.
Citing sources close to VW, news agency DPA reported that Stadler would receive an immediate payment of "signficantly less than €1m" linked to his departure. The sources added that remaining claims "in the double-digit millions" relating to the time left to run on his contracts will be paid out only if Stadler escapes conviction.


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Buying projects are important for any type of ecommerce merchant. At my company (Periscopix, a Merkle Business), we regularly see them outperform common search in regards to profits as well as expense of sales.
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While producing a project framework based upon your feed was feasible, it definitely had not been as basic as well as user-friendly as it ended up being when Buying projects were introduced in springtime 2014. Likewise, a new function was the capability to utilize project concern levels in order to preferentially offer specific items over others, without the have to enhance quotes.
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After that the medium-priority project is developed by splitting items with the greatest efficiency to product ID degree as well as leaving every little thing else to filter right into the low-priority "all items" project.
| The medium-priority project is developed by splitting items with the greatest efficiency down to product ID degree as well as leaving every little thing else to filter right into the low-priority "all items" project.
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This framework was invented as a method of enhancing perception share on common terms without losing invest in individuals as well much up the acquisition channel. The critical project was created to catch individuals that had actually currently done their research study as well as understood precisely which item they wished to get (e.g., somebody looking for "dimension 8 red candy striped maxi gown" instead of "gown").
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So which choice do you select for partitioning your items?
| Which choice do you select for partitioning your items?
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Problem. Problem matters for sellers offering both brand-new as well as second-hand/used items.
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There is no "best" method to structure your Buying projects. It depends completely on your company's reporting requirements as well as KPIs.
The fantastic point is that there are a lot of choices available since with a little factor to consider, you ought to have the ability to discover the ideal one.
The article Obtain Your Concerns Straight: Structuring Google Buying Projects showed up initially on Online search engine Land.
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Survey of London
Survey of London: Volume 24, the Parish of St Pancras Part 4: King's Cross Neighbourhood
Battle Bridge Estate
Survey of London: Volume 24, the Parish of St Pancras Part 4: King's Cross Neighbourhood. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1952.
This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. All rights reserved.
CHAPTER 10: BATTLE BRIDGE ESTATE
CXXIX—Argyle Square
CXXX—Argyle Street
CXXXI—Belgrove Street (formerly Belgrave Street)
CXXXII—Crestfield Street (formerly Chesterfield Street)
CXXXIII—Birkenhead Street (formerly Liverpool Street)
CXXXIV—St. Chad's Street (formerly Derby Street)
CXXXV—Gray's Inn Road West Side (Nos. 251 to 345), East Side (Nos. 326 to 378)
CXXXVI—King's Cross Road West Side (Nos. 127 to 215)
King's Cross Station on the Metropolitan Railway, now closed, was situated in the middle of an area which was formerly a small common—waste of the Manor of Cantlowes—extending on the south to within a short distance of St. Chad's Place and on the north to the parish boundary along Pentonville Road. (fn. n1) The river Fleet, before it became an underground sewer in 1825, flowed along the western side of Pancras Road and then eastward along the south side of the common, crossing the old highway (now Gray's Inn Road) north of St. Chad's Place. Here was no doubt the original "Broad Ford," which gave its name to Bradford Bridge, corrupted in Tudor times to Battle Bridge. There is no foundation for the stories of a battle here between the Romans and the Britons. The only Roman find discovered near Battle Bridge is the fragment of a tombstone to the memory of "Saturninus, private in the Twentieth Valerian Victorious Legion" found on the eastern side of Maiden Lane in 1842. (fn. 93) The neighbourhood was generally known as Battle Bridge until the erection of King's Cross (a memorial to George IV) in 1830 (see p. 115) when the latter name superseded it. But the name of Battle Bridge was attached not only to the hamlet near the ancient bridge (and specifically to the houses at the north-west corner of King's Cross Road), but was also applied to the fields to the south, on both sides of Gray's Inn Road. This chapter deals, therefore, with the area enclosed by the present Euston Road, King's Cross Road, the Skinners' Company Estate on the west and the Cromer-Lucas and Swinton Estates on the south, and divided into two parts, one to the west and one to the east of Gray's Inn Road.
Battle Bridge Field, to the west of Gray's Inn Road (see Survey of London, Vol. XIX, pp. 24–25) was owned by Richard Cliffe who, by his will (1566) (fn. 94) bequeathed it to his brother Geoffrey Cliffe, who died in 1571.
It is described (fn. 95) in 1650 as "five closes now divided, but formerly one close, containing 18 acres, and three houses at the nether end of Gray's Inn Lane, in Pancridge, alias Pancrasse, alias Kentish Town, in the occupation of Richard Gualter." The field was then sold by Thomas Wilford, gentleman, of Dunball, Ashley Abbotts, Salop, grandson of John Hodges of Holborn, gentleman, and Mary his wife, to Thomas Russell of St. Martin's Ludgate, gentleman. In 1710, when it contained four closes (formerly two and later five) with five houses, it belonged to the family of De Beauvoir of Hackney. (fn. 96) When the New (Euston) Road was formed, its northern part was cut off and its area reduced. In Horwood's map (Plate 1) it is shown divided into two parts, the New Road Nursery occupying the upper portion. In Tompson's map (Plate 2) four of its original closes are shown: New Garden, Holles's Field, Cow Lier and the part occupied by "Mr. Smith."
Prior to the year 1800 the property was owned by William Brock who leased 3¼ acres (the New Garden) to William Marshall and the remainder, some 12 acres of meadow, to John Smith. The estate remained in the possession of Brock till shortly before 1823, when it was purchased by Thomas Dunston of Old Street, St. Luke's, William Robinson of Charterhouse Square, and William Flanders of Colebrooke Row, Islington. (fn. 97) They decided to develop it, and applied for an Act in 1824. The Act (fn. 98) recites that the land consisted of 15¼ acres on the south side of the New (Euston) Road and 1¼ acres on the north side (on the site of the sloping carriage way in front of St. Pancras Station, and extending slightly further east).
The streets which Messrs. Dunston, Robinson and Flanders planned to create were Argyle Street and Manchester Street (now merged into Argyle Street), Belgrove Street, Chesterfield Street (now Crestfield Street), Liverpool Street (now Birkenhead Street) and Derby Street (now St. Chad's Street). The strip on the north side of Euston Road was to have seventeen houses and to be called Egremont Place. (fn. 99)
Although the houses which they built have the charm inherent in diminutive dwellings of the early 19th century, with picturesque balconies and fanlights, the Battle Bridge area was never "highly respectable" in the social sense of the day. In the report of the destitute districts made by Mr. Sinclair, in 1848, for the Deacons' Court of Regent Square Church, (fn. 100) he speaks of it as "an extensive field of labour situated between Cromer Street and the New Road on the one side, and Judd Street and Gray's Inn Road on the other" and having a population of no less than 7,000 people, sometimes as many as five families in a house, the occupants being labourers, beggars and street traders. Drunkenness and squalor were prevalent.
Some reference should be made to an ambitious scheme projected (fn. 17) by Signor Gesualdo (Gemaldo) Lanza (1779–1859), an Italian teacher of music, to provide a centre for music and the drama on an island site facing Euston Road and contained within Birkenhead Street and Argyle Street. Lanza had a deserved reputation as a singing master, and with the help of the architect, Stephen Geary, a plan was produced, a copy of which is in the Crace Collection at the British Museum. In the centre of the site was a large building styled the Grand Panharmonium Theatre, facing north, with a refreshment room to the east and a ballroom to the west, stretching together across the whole site. The space south of the theatre was to be occupied by pleasure gardens, with a music gallery built against the theatre itself. In front of the theatre was a courtyard with two approaches from Euston Road on the site of the present Crestfield and Belgrove Streets. Residences were to be built on the Euston Road frontage and in other parts of the site. A dramatic school was also to be built facing Birkenhead Street. There were to be picture galleries, reading rooms and many other features as well.
As far as can be gathered the only building actually erected was the little theatre in Birkenhead Street (see p. 110) which may have been that first intended as a dramatic school. But there seems to have been some preparation of the grounds which were furnished with an overhead railway from which cars were suspended (fn. 101) (see illustration on p. 104).
The opening day was on Thursday, 4th March, 1830, but the project was short lived. On 28th February, 1832, particulars of sale were published concerning bricks, balustrades, gates, plaster figures and unfinished buildings, "late the Panarmonion Gardens." The ground was to be carved into plots and laid into "a new square called Argyle Square." Demolition must have followed immediately, for a newspaper cutting of 20th March, 1832, refers to an accident when an arch was being pulled down "at the Piano Gardens near Battle Bridge." A plan drawn by Ebenezer Perry in 1832 for a re-distribution of the property shows the lay-out of the streets that exist to-day.
Battle Bridge Field, east of Gray's Inn Road, occupied the area south and west of the Fleet Brook and north of the Swinton Estate. These boundaries are clear from the numerous entries in the Middlesex Land Registry as the land was divided into building plots. In Rocque's map of ten miles round London, published in 1746, he shows a group of about nine houses at Battle Bridge at the junction of Gray's Inn and King's Cross Roads, but these were north of the river. In 1767 the field south of this belonged to John Smart of Poplar and Mary his wife. Its rapid building development dates from this year when they let (fn. 102) part of it to Richard Hedges, carpenter, of St. Pancras. Britannia Street was the principal road leading eastwards from Gray's Inn Road; parallel to it were George Street (south) and Charlotte Street, Field Street and St. Chad's Place (north). Connecting these was Paradise Street, running north to south behind the houses in Gray's Inn Road, called Chad's Row or part of Constitution Row. The development was continued by John Smart's only son and heir, Richard Smart, described as of Mile End Old Town, Stepney, gentleman. Among the builders who took up leases were James Usher, carpenter, of Laystall Street, St. Andrew's Holborn (1773), John Seager of Battle Bridge, builder (1778) and Thomas Fish of Salisbury Street, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, bricklayer (1783). (fn. 103) The whole of this estate has been entirely demolished and rebuilt.
SUSPENSION RAIL–WAY, ROYAL PANARMONION GARDENS, LIVERPOOL STREET, KINGS CROSS, NEW ROAD, Sr. PANCRAS
WILLIAM THE FOURTH, ROYAL CAR.
Argyle Square is situated between St. Chad's Street (formerly Derby Street), which divides the western part of the estate into northern and southern parts, and Argyle Street (formerly Manchester Street) which bounds the estate on the south. In 1840 the first two houses appear in the rate books, entered in pencil, indicating no doubt that they were not yet occupied. Nos. 1 to 13 and 33 to 40 were completed by 1844, and a further three houses appeared in 1849 when the square was fully built.
Nos. 40 and 41 Argyle Square
It is interesting to find that the "town-planning" of an area of even "third-class" houses included a square, and it certainly must have been attractive with its modest houses adorned with convex fronted balconies and lotus flowered railings. The north side, comprising Nos. 1 to 6, has been re-developed. The remaining sides are numbered clockwise 7 to 25 on the east, 26 to 35 on the south and 36 to 47 on the west. The houses, now mostly hotels and boarding houses, are all of one type with stucco-fronted basements and areas, ground storeys with architraves to the roundheaded doors and windows, and three upper storeys of brick. There are the usual balconies to the first floor. Straight joints in the brickwork indicate that the houses were erected generally in groups of four. No 25 at the corner of Argyle Street was badly damaged and has been restored. Nos. 7 and 47 at the corners of St. Chad's Street and No. 36 at the corner of Argyle Street have their entrances at the sides.
On the south side of the square, between No. 26 Argyle Square and No. 68 Argyle Street stood the Swedenborgian New Jerusalem Church. It was designed by J. D. Hopkins in the Anglo-Norman style, and was opened on 11th August, 1844, a year after the foundation stone was laid. (fn. 104) The church has been demolished and its site incorporated into the area covered by flats.
Argyle Street runs southward from Euston Road at a point opposite St. Pancras Station and then turns sharply east to Gray's Inn Road, forming the southern boundary of the Battle Bridge Estate. The owners of the land, Messrs. Dunston, Robinson and Flanders, decided to develop it in 1832, and a plan of the houses proposed to be erected was prepared by their surveyor Ebenezer Perry. (fn. 99) The four parallel streets (Argyle Street, Belgrove Street, Crestfield Street and Birkenhead Street) were set at right angles to the New (Euston) Road leaving a triangular strip of land next the Skinners' Estate and situated behind the present theatre. This was utilized for a brick cow-shed and dairy offices over 300 feet long, let in 1832 to Lewis Raphael, dairyman, of Golders Green. (fn. 105)
Type of Balconies in Argyle Square
The Building of the original Argyle Street was begun in 1833, when the poor rate books of St. Pancras show the first eleven houses on the western side southwards from Euston Road. The same number opposite on the east side were next built and finished in 1839. By 1849 the street of fortyone houses had been completed and was numbered consecutively from No. 1 at the north-west corner to No. 41 at the north-east corner. It has since been re-numbered (see below).
Manchester Street, the former name of the eastern section of Argyle Street, does not figure in the rate books till 1826, when five houses at the Gray's Inn Road end appear, followed by three others in 1827. There were sixteen houses in 1830. In 1832 a building lease (fn. 106) was granted to Robert Eckett of Hadlow Street, Burton Crescent, to build the first four houses (exclusive of the corner house) on the southern side of the Gray's Inn Road end. Britton's map of 1834 shows that at least a further ten houses had then been added on this side. Thereafter building seems to have progressed slowly until 1849, when there were forty-seven houses, which comprised the full complement of the street.
The houses of Argyle Street differ from those in the square of the same name chiefly by the absence of moulded stucco architraves around the windows, which on the first floor are recessed within brick arches in the external face of the wall. This feature they share with houses at the northwestern extremity of Gray's Inn Road. The smaller houses of Argyle Street have only two storeys, but the larger ones have an attic floor contained within a mansard roof. The present numbering of the street commences at the north end with odd numbers on the east and even numbers on the west side. Between Euston Road and St. Chad's Street, Nos. 7 to 19 and, south of the latter, Nos. 27 to 47 remain, and are of one design. They are of brick having the usual basements with railed areas, ground storeys with round-headed windows and doorways, and two upper storeys; the first floor windows are square-headed, set in shallow round-arched recesses, and have individual balconies.
Nos. 4 to 36 are similar but the doorways have archivolts and some of the ground storeys are wholly stucco-fronted. No. 36 has been repaired in yellow brick; the houses south of this, Nos. 38 to 44, to Whidborne Street have been demolished. Most of these buildings are now hotels and boarding-houses. No. 46, south of Whidborne Street in the angle, is a plainer brick house retaining the sign of the Duke of Wellington.
At the bend, on the north side, are three later projecting shops below a wall of modern brick, probably a post-war repair or alteration; a doorway at the side of the corner shop is old and round-arched like the others and may have belonged to the original No. 45.
The south side of the former Manchester Street continues the even numbers. Nos. 48 to 54 are of brick with basements. The ground storeys have round-arched windows and doorways, the latter with archivolts of stucco. There are two upper storeys and mansard attics. The tall first floor windows have no balconies. Nos. 56 and 58 are similar but have no stucco work or attics. There are straight joints in the brickwork on either side of this pair.
Nos. 60 to 66 have basements and ground storeys with stucco architraves to the round-headed doorways and windows, and three upper storeys with stucco architraves to the first floor windows. Not only are these houses higher but the storeys themselves are taller than those of No. 58, etc., to the west. The next house adjoining on the east is No. 35 Argyle Square.
East of the south range of the square stand the flats erected by the St. Pancras Borough Council on both sides of the street, but at the east end three old houses are still standing. Nos. 106 and 108 are still occupied; they have basements, round-headed doorways and windows to the ground floor, and two upper storeys with first floor balconies. No. 110 (next to the derelict No. 249 Gray's Inn Road) has a shop front with two brick upper storeys.
Belgrove Street leads from Euston Road to St. Chad's Street. The rate books indicate that building was begun at the Euston Road end in 1834, when the first four houses are entered in pencil as shortly due for rating. By 1839 there were seventeen houses. Daw's map of 1868 (on which it is still spelled "Belgrave Street") indicates that this was its full complement, much of its length being absorbed by the back and front gardens of Hamilton Place (as the large houses facing the Euston Road were then called).
Nos. 7 and 8 Belgrove Street
Although the houses are narrow, rarely exceeding 16 feet wide, and can have been intended only for tenants of moderate means, they exhibit considerable ingenuity in design. All the detail is admirably executed and they have a marked dignity of composition. The round-headed doors and windows of the ground floor are spaced independently of the rectangular windows above. The ground floor windows have radiating bars in their upper sashes, which for the most part are square-framed for simplicity of construction and to prevent warping; they slide into square-headed recesses in the walls so that they give the appearance of round-arched windows until lowered for airing the rooms. The doors are four-panelled in place of the earlier six-panel types and are hung to posts in the form of pilasters, with fanlights above.
Of the original houses only Nos. 1 to 8 on the west side remain.
Crestfield Street leads from Euston Road to St. Chad's Street and is parallel with Belgrove Street. In 1825 Messrs. Dunston, Robinson and Flanders granted (fn. 107) to W. Forrester Bray of Liverpool Street, St. Pancras, builder and auctioneer, the two end plots on the east side adjoining Euston Road.
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Crestfield Street
Mr. Bray's houses are the only ones appearing in the rate books till 1840, when there are pencil entries of four others shortly ready for occupation; the street is shown fully built in 1841.
The houses are similar to those in Argyle and Birkenhead Streets, except that they are to a greater extent faced with stucco on their ground floors. The patterns of windows, doors and fanlights follow those to be seen in the neighbouring streets. The illustration of Nos. 1 to 3 on this page shows their character.
Birkenhead Street leads from Euston Road to Argyle Street. In 1825 the rate books give its first two houses as newly built at the Euston Road end, adjoining Hamilton Place. In 1827 five more were added. In 1833 there were thirty-three; by 1849 the full complement of sixty houses was reached. Some of them were built by W. Forrester Bray, who appears to have had limited capital and to have acquired sites on mortgage from the landowners, Messrs. Dunston, Robinson and Flanders. It seems likely from the similarity of the designs that he built much of Crestfield, Belgrove and Argyle Streets.
On the western side of the street near its northern end was the Royal Theatre, and south of it, with one house intervening, is a Wesleyan Chapel. They are shown on Perry's plan of the street in 1832 (fn. 99) and both appear in a water-colour in the Council's Collection (Plate 78b). The theatre had a front rendered in stucco with pilasters and niches above. It has been altered somewhat in its design and is now converted into a restaurant. The Royal Theatre, called the Royal Clarence Theatre during the reign of William IV, was built as part of the Panharmonium project (see p. 103) and was first used by Signor Gesualdo Lanza for his pupils. It was opened as a public theatre by John Baldwin Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam in May, 1832. In 1838 it was known as the New Lyceum and subsequently as the Regent, the Argyll and the Cabinet. John L. Toole acted here and also Edmund Kean. It was still in existence in 1867, in which year G. M. Polini, the father of Marie Polini (who married Owen Nares) made his debut there. (fn. 108)
The view shows the chapel, with a brick façade, a central projecting porch, upper round-headed windows and a pediment over the whole front in stucco. At the end of the street a tree-planted area still existed on the site of the present taxi exit at the south end of King's Cross Station; beyond the Euston Road can be seen the gardens of the former Smallpox Hospital. Another drawing in the Council's Collection (shown on Plate 78a) gives an interesting view of the interior of the theatre.
The houses in Birkenhead Street are similar to those in Argyle Street. Nos. 1 to 7 on the east side and Nos. 54 to 59 opposite are all that remains of the original lay-out.
St. Chad's Street, runs from Gray's Inn Road across the head of Argyle Square to Argyle Street. It is residential only at its east end, the remainder merely connecting the transverse streets. According to the rate books the first house was completed in 1827; five more were built in 1828, and in the following year there were fourteen in all.
On the north side are now nine houses (Nos. 1 to 9) with basements and areas. The ground floor windows and doors are round-headed and there are two upper storeys. On the first floor the windows are rectangular within arched recesses and are mostly furnished with balconies. Nos. 1 to 4 have stucco architraves to the arched windows and doorways. Nos. 8 and 9 have had their upper storeys rebuilt but are derelict.
On the south side, next the building at the corner of Gray's Inn Road, are two houses (Nos. 13 and 14) of similar design except that the first floor windows have stucco architraves and hoods. West of these is an entrance to Whitbread's Bottling Depôt; this is contained within Birkenhead Street and Gray's Inn Road, St. Chad's Street and Argyle Street, and on Britton's map of 1834 is represented as a long courtyard building marked "Institution" and on the 1871 ordnance as "The London General Depository." The main entrance is from Gray's Inn Road (see further description below).
The range of twenty-nine buildings (Nos. 251 to 307) between Argyle Street and St. Chad's Street, with the exception of the entrance to Whitbread's (No. 277, see below), possess shops with two storeys of plain brick facing above. The first floor windows are set in arched recesses as elsewhere on this estate. The twelve houses north of St. Chad's Street (Nos. 311 to 333) are similar. Nos. 335 to 337 form a post office. Nos. 339 and 341, which are older, have plastered upper storeys. A number of the shopfronts are original and have swept ends to their fasçias.
No. 277 Gray's Inn Road
The building, now occupied by Whitbread's, which lies behind Gray's Inn Road, was originally designed for use as the North London Horse Depository. The engraving (Plate 80), shows a large courtyard, treated in stucco with some architectural pretension. Its principal entrance still exists under No. 277 Gray's Inn Road, which has a stucco front with an Ionic portico of four columns framing the central carriage way and flanked by its two arched doorways. The two storeys above have plain sash windows and the whole is finished with a pediment. The other entrance is on the north, from St. Chad's Street. In September, 1832, Robert Owen, who, eight years before had started a London Co-operative Society with rooms in Burton Street, took over the building from its owner, a man named Bromley, to form an "Equitable Labour Exchange," the purpose being "to promote the exchange of all commodities by giving equal values of labour," the currency used being specially designed "labour notes." The Bazaar, as it was called, attracted a great number of customers, but owing to Bromley's exorbitant claims for rent, Owen moved his Exchange in the next year to Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square. (fn. 7) When in April, 1832, Edward Irving was expelled from his church in Regent Square, the larger part of the congregation, numbering some 800, met in the Assembly Room here, but not relishing the association with Robert Owen, they moved in the autumn to Benjamin West's picture gallery in Newman Street. (fn. 72) After Owen's departure Bromley attempted to carry on business as the Royal London Bazaar, and an additional attraction was advertised when in December, 1833, Madame Tussaud's Waxwork Exhibition came here from Brighton. The waxworks removed to Baker Street in March, 1835, and to Marylebone Road in 1884. (fn. 109)
On the opposite side of the street there is little left for notice. No. 328, to the north of Swinton Street, preserves the name of its celebrated predecessor in this neighbourhood, The Pindar of Wakefield. A little further north (between Nos. 330 and 334) stood the Church of St. Jude. It was the first church to be built in London by the aid of the Bishop of London's Fund, initiated by Archbishop Tait when he was Bishop of London. (fn. 4) It was designed by Joseph Peacock and was consecrated in 1863. It was built in the style of the 13th century with red and yellow bricks and had an aisled nave and chancel. The church was demolished in 1936 when the parish was united with that of Holy Cross, Cromer Street, to which many of its memorials and fittings were removed (see p. 95).
1863 John Marshall Andrews (d. 1896)
1888 William Dalrymple Fanshawe
1898 Frederick Henry Bolingbroke
1909 Alfred Newns
1920 Rowland Mark Pitt
1926–1935 George Wallace Johnston
The entrance to St. Chad's Well was at one time situated between Nos. 364 and 366. William Hone in his Everyday Book, published in 1841, describes the faded inscription ST. CHAD'S WELL, which "stands or rather dejects over an elderly pair of wooden gates" there, and the "low old-fashioned, comfortable-looking, large-windowed dwelling" near the well. The dwelling-house is the subject of a drawing in the Heal Collection reproduced on Plate 79a. The waters here had some of the popularity of those at Bagnigge Wells, but by the time Hone visited St. Chad's it had ceased to be frequented, except by a few "locals" and "old cronies."
The houses on the west side of King's Cross Road were mostly built in the middle of the 19th century. Nos. 127 to 137 and 143 to 147 are of this period, the latter with shops and two storeys of plain brick above. Nos. 149 to 161 and 165 to 171 are later and taller buildings. Similar houses are Nos. 173 to 179, and Nos. 187 to 205. Many buildings have suffered war damage and only the shop of No. 215 survives.
Fanlights at Nos. 40, Argyle, Square, 22, Argyle Street, 2, Crestfield Street, and 7, Belgroove Street, Drawings by A. R. Hansen (London County Council)
n1. For the portion of waste, east of the river, further south see Bagnigge Wells (p. 66).
4. T. F. Bumpus, London churches ancient and modern, 2nd ser., p. 103.
7. Dict. Nat. Biog.
17. Heal Collection, St. Pancras Public Library.
72. G. C. S. Brough, Centenary of Regent Square, 1927.
93. R. C. H. M.Roman London, 1928.
94. P. C. C. 5 Crymes.
95. P. R. O. CP. 43/268(12).
96. Middx. Land Reg. 1710/1/50.
97. Ibid. 1843/2/54.
98. An Act for forming paving lighting … streets on certain plots of ground called Battle Bridge Fields … St. Pancras. 5 Geo. IV c. 70 (public).
99. Middx. Land Reg. 1832/4/575.
100. Archives of Presbyterian Church of England.
101. St. Pancras Journal, I No. 8, Dec. 1947.
102. Middx. Land Reg. 1767/6/353.
103. Ibid. 1778/4/368 and 1783/3/542, etc.
104. Ill. Lond. News.
106. Ibid. 1832/1/746.
108. Erroll Sherson, London lost theatres of the nineteenth century, 1925.
109. L. Cottrell, Madame Tussaud, 1951.


Some professionals argue that the only path to sustainable growth is to work with incumbents in the industry. Indeed, startup-institution relationships (whether its Carrier-InsurTech, or Bank-FinTech cases) have evolved from competition to a beautiful friendship, bringing out the best and accelerating innovation adoption.
On the other hand, while the benefits of collaborative culture are undeniable for the insurance industry (as any other), imbalanced partnerships may also impose a long-term threat to the startup side in terms of eradication of its competitive edge. More particularly, accelerating collaboration in the form of accelerators, dedicated VC funds established by institutional insurers, creates an opportunity for incumbents to learn and adopt the best technology and solutions (which, of course, is very important for the industry), while remaining in a safe and powerful position.
According to PineBridge Investments, an asset management firm with around $83 billion in AUM, in addition to product development and risk pricing, InsurTech could bring improvements in cost and efficiency of customer acquisition and engagement, the underwriting process, fraud detection/prevention, and claims management.
AEG experts emphasize that with the adoption of advanced technologies, "Claims processes are becoming a lot more efficient, fraud will likely be caught more often, and most importantly of all, more and more losses are and will continue to be prevented." Estimates suggest that a 1% improvement in the loss ratio for a £1 billion (US $1.25 billion) insurer, with better use of data, is worth £10 million ($12.5 million) on the bottom line. Analytics can flag up claims for closer inspection, priority handling or other action.
Naturally, to be able to harness those opportunities, the largest carriers turned to traditional forms of collaboration. AIA, AXA, MetLife, Aviva, and other industry leaders were quick on establishing ties with the startup community to transform own business models and strengthen the foundation of their leadership. Going even further, insurance companies are establishing their innovation mining machines to source talent, ideas, solutions and learn about the advanced applications of big data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile technology, AI, social networks and blockchain technology.
Illustrated initiatives result in insurance companies bringing advanced technology into operations, amping up their competitiveness. A vivid example is Fukoku Mutual Life, a Japanese insurance company, which was reported to be laying off more than 30 employees and replacing them with an artificial intelligence system that will be calculating policy payouts instead of human counterparts. According to Fortune, Fukoku Mutual Life expects the $1.73 million smart system based on IBM's Watson Explorer — which costs around $129,000 each year to maintain — to save the company about $1.21 million each year.
"With a significant portion of an insurer's cost structure devoted to human resources, any shift towards automation should deliver significant cost savings.
The Guardian has reported that two other Japanese insurance companies – Dai-Ichi Life Insurance and Japan Post Insurance – are also adopting AI for a higher efficiency. Dai-Ichi Life Insurance, for example, introduced a Watson-based system to assess payments, and Japan Post Insurance is interested in introducing a similar setup.
The rapid transition to digital channels in the insurance industry and the benchmark set by online insurance platforms with chatbots and virtual assistants, led large insurers higher digitization of operations. Allstate Business Insurance, for example, with help of Earley Information Science, developed a virtual assistant that provides agents with the answers they need and created a deep taxonomy for its knowledge repository. As a result, Allstate has experienced reduced call volume to call centers, stronger acceptance of its technology and improved business results.
The Allstate solution called ABIe is an online avatar-based expert system that provides 10,000 exclusive sales agents and 2,000 independent agents with guided access to an online knowledge base enabling immediate and accurate answers to customer inquiries while streamlining the process of preparing sales quotations for small business insurance products.
Manulife's Lab of Forward Thinking (LOFT) is setting another example. LOFT has been reported to be undergoing efforts to accelerate its adoption of new technologies. In April 2016, the Canadian insurer's US unit John Hancock took a deep dive into blockchain — collaborating with startups ConsenSys and BlockApps.
Further, according to Insurance Networking News, Manulife began exploring artificial intelligence and deep learning in its innovation labs through partnerships with Nervana Systems and indico data solutions. Once complete, the platform will serve as a means for research analysts to analyze and decipher natural language from public sources to make smarter investment decisions.
It's clear that insurers are fully invested in adopting the best technology startups and talent can offer. Although there are certain benefits for the startup side as well, incumbents have an upper hand when it comes to innovation adoption due to very same reasons banks have over FinTech startups – they have well-established brands, capital, business infrastructure, and a vast customer base. Moreover, PineBridge emphasizes that with a stronger understanding of the insurance market and existing customers, incumbent insurers can better capitalize on InsurTech to grow and expand current businesses.
The large incumbents can readily offer novel insurance products once these products prove to be viable. And the way for insurers to assess potential viability is through studying the performance of InsurTech startups, popularizing new models and types of insurance. By observing and learning from the performance of Bought By Many new Pet Insurance introduced just this Wednesday, large insurers can develop their own personalized policies or at least use startup as channels for capital allocation and expansion.
Moreover, as PineBridge professionals suggest, with personalized risk assessment, future insurance products could evolve toward a single policy covering all personal insurance needs such as home, auto, health, property and travel. The incumbent insurers are better positioned to develop and popularize the concept of customized insurance solutions.


It's why I use quotes around "terror" in instances like this that happen a lot under Bush and why Michael Bloomberg is right, much to the consternation of more than a few conservative idiots.
Credibility of JFK terror case questioned.
When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable," which might have caused "unthinkable" devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed.
The plot, he knew, was never operational. The public had never been at risk. And the notion of blowing up the airport, let alone the borough of Queens, by exploding a fuel tank was in all likelihood a technical impossibility.
And now, with a portrait emerging of alleged mastermind Russell Defreitas as hapless and episodically homeless, and of co-conspirator Abdel Nur as a drug addict, Mauskopf's initial characterizations seem more questionable -- some go so far as to say hyped.
"I think her comments were over the top," said Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland. "It was a totally overstated characterization that doesn't comport with the facts."
Like the "Miami Five", a terrorist cell that turned out to not be one - at least not a real threat to anyone besides their fevered imaginations.


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March 24, 2020 June 9, 2019 by Western Home Journal
Arriving Home in The Colony Feels Like a True Departure
Prepare for Takeoff
A picture of The Colony at White Pine Canyon is worth a thousand words. A visit will leave you speechless. The concept of this unique alpine escape is special. The private, ski-in/ski-out, gated preserve is nestled in the heart of one of North America's largest ski and snowboard resorts, in the town of Park City, Utah, site of dozens of 2002 Winter Olympics events.
From the instant your feet touch this magnificent land and you fill your lungs with this pristine alpine air, you'll understand that the only way to get away from it all is to live in the middle of it all. Arriving at The Colony feels like a true departure.
A Cool, Cool Summer at The Colony
There are many reasons to head for the mountains in the summer. Cool mountain air, breathtaking vistas, massive aspen groves, bubbling streams, abundant wildlife, and rich mountain flora are just a few of nature's contributions to this special place.
The Colony is secluded while being very accessible; it's just 35 miles from Salt Lake International Airport, and 22 miles from Heber Valley Airport, perfect for private jet travel. Once you are settled into your Colony retreat, you're a mere five miles to Park City's Historic Main Street, home to the Sundance Film Festival, and world-class dining and shopping.
The concept of this unique alpine escape is special. The private, ski-in/ski-out, gated preserve is nestled in the heart of one of North America's largest ski and snowboard resorts, in the town of Park City, Utah, site of dozens of 2002 Winter Olympics events.
Air, Land, and Water
Air: Pack your picnic basket and enjoy the dozens of open-air concerts held around The Colony throughout the warm-weather months. Enjoy a sunrise hot air balloon ride that will give you an incredibly unique way to take in miles of the Park City landscape. An added bonus is the annual Autumn Aloft hot air balloon festival, held each September in Park City.
Land: Take just a few steps outside your home to set off on a hike, bike, or horseback ride, either on the numerous private trails sprinkled among the 274 homesites scattered over the 4,600 acres of the development–or along the hundreds of miles of trails open to the public.
In the summer months, enjoy the selections at Park City's weekly Wednesday Farmer's Market and the Park Silly Sunday Market. The July celebration of America's birthday in Park City stretches into days, not hours. Labor Day is celebrated as Miner's Day, where thousands congregate in the streets of Park City for a parade and festivities commemorating the area's rich mining history.
Water: Streams, waterfalls, lakes, and ponds can be found throughout The Colony. Boating, paddle-boarding, kayaking, white water rafting, and fly fishing opportunities abound at the numerous lakes and on the Weber and Provo Rivers.
The stunning summers help you prepare for the epic winters. The Park City Mountain Resort ski day begins and ends at the back door for Colony homeowners. With an average snowfall of 25 feet per year, and 350+ inches last winter, you can bet skiers and boarders are not wasting any time enjoying the more than 7,300 acres of winter magic in-bounds. Among those acres, there are 348 trails, 41 lifts, 13 bowls, 8 terrain parks, and 2 base villages to enjoy.
Our state, known for the best snow on earth, has already hosted one set of Winter Games. The facilities, venues, and transportation systems built for the 2002 Olympics have been so meticulously maintained and upgraded, Utah has been selected by the United States Olympic Committee for a potential 2030 Winter Games bid. The move would inject even more momentum into Utah's real estate market, which is the number-one state in house price appreciation since 1991 (up 321.57% since Q1, 1991, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency). Not only that, but The Colony homes are directly in the middle of Park City's venues – and all of the Olympic action.
The Next Great Escape: Dream Lots on Dream Ridge
It's an accepted fact that this land is special. And the newest releases in The Colony–the Dream Lots–are in a category of their very own. They are the most spectacular homesites ever offered in The Colony, and there are only two of them.
Live the alpine dream year-round from your dream home in a Dream Lot, perched atop Dream Ridge, which feels like your own personal mountain. The Dream Lots offer 360º perspectives: of Park City Mountain, territorial down-valley views, and the majestic Uinta Range ridgeline. These unparalleled homesites are partially wooded with lush aspen groves and evergreens, offering, relatively flat building envelopes and unmatched privacy.
A Journey for the Ages
The current Colony Master Plan started to evolve in 1992. But the real story began when John George Condas arrived at Ellis Island in 1903 and headed west. He settled in Utah and was one of the region's providers of food for the large mining population. Park City's cool summers offered an ideal habitat for Condas's large sheep herds and they wandered the hills from June to November. It has been critical to the project that the Condas family legacy lives on today. The developer and each new Colony owner are committed to being good stewards of the land, through the master planning, where the landscape remains the inspiration, and through the philosophy that "less is more." Historical landmarks of the Condas family settlement can be found throughout the development and a number of sites have remains of small sheepherders' shelters. There are also quite a few massive aspen trees carved with the previous inhabitants' initials–dating back to the early 1900s–documenting their presence.
The devotion to this land is such that nearly 90% of the development's 4,600 acres will remain pristine and untouched open space, protected with preservation easements. Current offerings average more than seven acres per lot, the largest to be found within just about any private, gated, ski-in/ski-out community in the world.
Live the alpine dream year-round from your dream home in a Dream Lot, perched atop Dream Ridge, which feels like your own personal mountain. The Dream Lots offer 360º perspectives: of Park City Mountain, territorial down-valley views, and the majestic Uinta Range ridgeline.
Meet Your Travel Guides
The Colony Sales Team knows The Colony real estate market better than anyone else. Bronson Calder and his team are on-site 365 days a year and are equipped with more than 80 years of Park City knowledge. The Team has had a presence in The Colony from the project's inception, along with continuous direct access to the project's development staff. This provides unprecedented ways for you to understand and appreciate the complexities of this community, and how you can maximize the development to best fit your lifestyle–and your legacy.
You've Arrived
There's no question that The Colony at White Pine Canyon feels like its own world; its access, privacy, and open spaces are incomparable. And the duality of that access also contributes to the singularity of The Colony experience. However far you travel to reach The Colony, its proximity to all that Park City has to offer provides homeowners the luxury of quickly connecting with the community and participating in whichever elements of city life they choose, with the knowledge that their private mountain retreat is just moments away.
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